Confused about how to study for Step 2CK

[Rik825]

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I hope you're all enjoying the weekend.

I'm posting here because I am pretty confused about how to study for Step 2CK. Basically I have 5 or 6 weeks to study. I've heard that is too much time, but I really want to kill this test.

Everyone talks so much about how to study for Step 1 (FA, Goljan, Kaplan, etc), but no one ever talks about how to do well on Step 2CK. I just got off the phone with Kaplan and apparently the only courses they have are like $4,000 and 6 weeks long, so I can't do that (probably designed for FMGs anyway).....

Any advice at all would be very much appreciated.

 

[deleted50541]

How did you do on your shelf exams? If you did fairly well, you shouldn't need much preparation for CK. Realize too that you've been applying your studies to real-world situations for the past year, which makes retention of information that much easier compared to Step 1.

Are you using a question bank yet? That and FA were all I reviewed starting just after finishing third year while taking a fairly easy elective. In that way, I had ample time in the afternoons and evenings to study, I avoided using precious vacation time, and I was still geared up from studying for shelf exams to put in the effort.

 

[IM Substance P]

I hope you're all enjoying the weekend.

I'm posting here because I am pretty confused about how to study for Step 2CK. Basically I have 5 or 6 weeks to study. I've heard that is too much time, but I really want to kill this test.

Everyone talks so much about how to study for Step 1 (FA, Goljan, Kaplan, etc), but no one ever talks about how to do well on Step 2CK. I just got off the phone with Kaplan and apparently the only courses they have are like $4,000 and 6 weeks long, so I can't do that (probably designed for FMGs anyway).....

Any advice at all would be very much appreciated.

I absolutely destroyed 2CK by doing UWorld only. I also pulled out my self-made study materials from my Shelf exams.

You probably don't need FA. Crush Step 2 is pretty popular and definitely as high density and just as high yield as FA.

 

[Stark]

I studied a month and did fine. FA and Crush are great. UCV Step 2 is also helpful.

 

[Richspiders07]

Take one of those NBME practice tests to see how you do and gauge how much more you need to study.